Li Guan

KWC-***, Computer Vision Lab, phone: +1-518-***-****

* ******** ******, ** ****** Research Center, e-mail: abpnos@r.postjobfree.com

Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA homepage: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lguan

EDUCATION

08/2007 05/2010

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Ph.D. Degree, Computer Science, Advisor: Prof. Marc. Pollefeys

08/2004 07/2007

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

M.S. Degree, Computer Science, Advisor: Prof. Marc Pollefeys

09/2000 06/2004

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

B.S., Mixed Honors Class, Computer Science & Technology, Advisor: Prof. Jiaoying Shi

EMPLOYMENT & RELATED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

08/2010 present

Computer Scientist, Computer Vision Lab, GE Global Research, NY, USA

Intelligent video processing for 3D scene understanding including human, vehicle and other general shapes

in the natural world. Develop algorithms, prototypes for varieties of GE businesses. Publish in academic

conference and journal and file patents about the research works.

09/2009 07/2010

Post Doc, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Collaborate with Prof. Jan-Michael Frahm and Prof. Marc Pollefeys

Multi-view 3D human motion analysis. Using volumetric representation of 3D sc ene to model human

motion as 3D motion field and compute arbitrary animals kinematic skeletons for 3D pose tracking.

rich, Switzerland 09/2007 07/2008

Academic Guest, Computer Vision & Geometry Group, ETH at Z

Visiting Prof. Marc Pollefeys and his group (cvg.ethz.ch)

Multi-view multi-object dynamic 3D reconstruction & tracking analysis.

Multi-modal sensor network, focus on robust probabilistic sensor fusion of camcor ders and Time-of-Flight

cameras for 3D reconstruction, and heterogeneous sensor network calibration.

06/2005 08/2005

Summer Intern, Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA

Supervised by Dr. Hector Gonzales-Banos

Construct camera network, and vision-based reconstruction for humanoid robots. Design and implement

the cross-platform generic sensor network protocol the "SensorTalk" as listed in the Patent section.

08/2004 08/2009

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA

Propose the idea of effective boundary for automatic 2D occlusion mask generation from a single video.

Propose a Bayesian framework for 3D static occluder inference from silhouette cues, organize multi -

camera datasets acquisition.

nVIDIA CUDA implementation of Real-time multi-view probabilistic visual hull, and occlusion inference.

09/2003 06/2004

Member, Vision Group, Robocup F180 Team, Zhejiang University, China

Restore Robocup pitch image with variational image registration techniques. The algorithm was used in

the final system in Robocup 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.

10/2003 11/2003

Exchange Student, Institute of Mathematics, University of L beck, Germany

Study functional methods of medical image registration with Prof. Bernd Fischer

With a technical report Gradient-driven affine image registration

03/2002 06/2004

Research Assistant, CAD & CG National Key Lab, Zhejiang University, China

Assist Prof. Jiaoying Shi

Survey and improve the Image Matting algorithms as my bachelor's topic.

Co-develop the Selective Reliable Multi-cast Protocol for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems .

PATENT

H. Gonzalez-Banos, J. Wormer, L. Guan, "Interface for Sensor Query and Control (SensorTalk)", US

Patent 2007/0078527 A1, H1053071 US02, Honda.

PUBLICATION

L. Guan, Multi-view Dynamic Scene Modeling, Ph.D. Thesis, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2010

L. Guan, J.-S. Franco and M. Pollefeys, Probabilistic Multi-view Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and

Occlusion Reasoning from Silhouette cues, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJ CV), 2010

L. Guan, J.-S. Franco, E. Boyer and M. Pollefeys, Probabilistic 3D Occupancy Flow with Latent

Silhouette Cues, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010

J.-S. Franco, L. Guan, E. Boyer and M. Pollefeys, 3D Occupancy Flow from Latent Silhouettes (in

French), Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA), 2010

L. Guan and M. Pollefeys, A Unified Approach to Calibrate a Network of Camcorders & ToF cameras,

IEEE workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-model Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2),

in conjunction with 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008

L. Guan, J.-S. Franco and M. Pollefeys, Multi-Object Shape Estimation and Tracking from Silhouette

Cues, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008

L. Guan, J.-S. Franco and M. Pollefeys, 3D Object Reconstruction with Heterogeneous Sensor Data,

International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization & Transmission (3DPVT), 2008

L. Guan, J.-S. Franco and M. Pollefeys, 3D Occlusion Inference from Silhouette Cues, IEEE Conference

on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007

L. Guan, S. Sinha, J.-S. Franco and M. Pollefeys, Visual Hull Construction in the Presence of Partial

Occlusion, Inter-national Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization & Transmission (3DPVT),

2006

L. Guan, C. Guo and R. Xiong, Robocup Field Distortion Calibration with Variational Image Registration,

Inter-national Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing (ISIMP), 2004

L. Guan, Algorithms of Object Extraction in Digital Images based on Alpha value, Bachelor Thesis, CAD

& CG National Key Lab, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 2004

MEMBERSHIP & SERVICE

IEEE student member, 2005-2009

Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society member, since 201 1

Member of the Program Committee, CVPR 2012

Student volunteer, 3rd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visua lization & Transmission

(3DPVT) 2006

Reviewer of CVPR 2010-present, ICCV 2007-present, ECCV 2008, AVSS 2008, ACCV 2007, Machine

Vision and Applications Journal (MVAJ), Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP) .

HONORS & AWARDS

IEEE & Microsoft Student Travel Grant, 2008

2004 2009

Scholarship from Department of Computer Science, UNC -Chapel Hill,

Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, U.S.A, 2004

Outstanding Graduation, Zhejiang University 2004

Chu Kechen Honors Scholarship, Zhejiang University 2003

Second National Prize, China Undergraduate Math Contest in Mod eling, 2003

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